samba - Dec 2012 - Extending AD schema

Hello,

from: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/FAQ

"""
Will it also be possible in the future to extend the server by loading user
defined schema's?

Yes, user-defined schema may be loaded into the Samba 4.0 AD DC. It is
experimental, so you must set
dsdb:schema update allowed = yes
in the smb.conf to permit it.
"""

My question is: what does it mean "it is experimental"?

I'm asking because I'm in the process of migrating an existing s3+ldap
domain, which has some custom classes and attributes. While I can emulate
some of our functionality using AD attributes and classes, some others
cannot (or I just haven't find the way yet).

I have already added our custom schemas to s4, and everything seems to be
fine, but I'd like to know beforehand what (maybe) won't work.


Many thanks in advance,
Norberto

On 12/29/2012 06:24 PM, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/FAQ
>
> """
> Will it also be possible in the future to extend the server by loading user
> defined schema's?
>
> Yes, user-defined schema may be loaded into the Samba 4.0 AD DC. It is
> experimental, so you must set
> dsdb:schema update allowed = yes
> in the smb.conf to permit it.
> """
>
> My question is: what does it mean "it is experimental"?
>
> I'm asking because I'm in the process of migrating an existing
s3+ldap
> domain, which has some custom classes and attributes. While I can emulate
> some of our functionality using AD attributes and classes, some others
> cannot (or I just haven't find the way yet).
Well I guess experimental is a bit too bold now but we can insure you 
100% as we have some corner case not covered. If you want to be sure 
make a test env, load your schema extensions, restart samba if samba 
restarts and you are able to search then you are safe, for the record we 
managed to add exchange schema to a samba DC so it should cover a pretty 
large spectrum of changes.

Matthieu.

-- 
Matthieu Patou
Samba Team
http://samba.org